§ Ms. HarmanTo ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will list for each district health authority for each of the past three years(a) how much money has been raised by fund raising and (b) the percentage this represents of the total local district health authority budget.
§ Mr. Dorrell[holding answer 2 July 1991]: Health authorities are empowered to raise money directly by appeals, collections etc., under section 5 of the Health Services Act 1980; such fund raising is undertaken through authorities' trust funds, which have charitable status. Figures for fund raising from the accounts of those district health authority trust funds in England taking advantage of this facility are shown in the table. Funds raised through the activities of third parties such as leagues of friends are not separately identifiable and are often accounted for separately.
While representing a useful incidental source of income the sums raised are supplementary to the cash advances made by the Department and represent a very small proportion of the total annual revenue expenditure incurred by the authorities concerned. Consequently the percentage figures, the highest being 1.3 per cent., but the majority below 0.5 per cent. have not been shown in the table.
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1987–88 £(cash) 1988–89 £(cash) 1989–90 £(cash) Dewsbury 0 1,417 1,078 Leeds Western 1,251 5,833 2,911 Nottingham 169,326 0 0 Doncaster 5,935 71,715 67,209 Sheffield 61,596 7,751 2,579 Peterborough 0 0 3,954 West Suffolk 199,626 381,444 240,461 West Norfolk and Wisbech 0 0 2,250 South West Hertfordshire 232,107 381,431 239,839 Harrow 3,189 1,740 0 Hillingdon 24,667 16,692 21,816 Ealing 5,757 2,474 3,602 West Essex 209 0 1,261 Barking, Havering and Brentwood 7,189 10,742 1,501 Islington 0 26,334 34,878 City and Hackney 251,456 1,001,629 679,731 Newham 0 56,251 27,689 Waltham Forest 7,825 9,059 16,856 Eastbourne 16,411 0 0 Canterbury and Thanet 487,914 245,118 112,061 Bexley 6,478 2,900 31,911 Greenwich 517 2,262 665 West Surrey and North East Hampshire 0 74,518 36,182 South West Surrey 5,121 6,442 5,285 Mid Surrey 0 0 5,934 East Surrey 3,712 2,978 70,833 Chichester 0 204,328 419,543 Worthing 6,273 6,094 6,152 Croydon 48,984 254,744 246,685 Richmond, Twickenham and Roehampton 0 4,093 2,997 East Dorset 347,954 573,868 1,113,997 Portsmouth and South East Hampshire 575,769 427,276 193,300 Winchester 12,958 6,469 2,538 Basingstoke 1,095 0 1,377 Swindon 486,016 23,136 49,586 Bath 10,415 13,487 7,176 Milton Keynes 30,143 22,694 11,122 Kettering 0 0 8,337 Northampton 13,440 13,279 17,758 Oxfordshire 6,740 0 0 Southmead 0 2,862 2,877 North Devon 14,769 214,499 274,568 Shropshire 0 0 396 Mid Staffs 0 0 17,724 Rugby 0 62 527 North Warwickshire 0 844 1,680 East Birmingham 0 18,698 57,334 South Birmingham 22,602 47,873 46,763 West Birmingham 73,946 5,712 1,776 Dudley 1,456 5,009 10,000 Sandwell 0 568 33,862 Solihull 8,900 32,630 88,457 Walsall 14,294 47,987 36,013 Crewe 492 0 0 Halton 0 0 866 Liverpool 0 0 69,123 Lancaster 27,244 0 0 Blackpool, Wyre and Fylde 6,624 0 0 Blackburn, Hyndburn and Ribble Valley 557,584 189,390 6,111 Burnley, Pendle and Rossendale 0 0 8,692 North Manchester 433 0 0 Central Manchester 0 9,129 1,827 South Manchester 0 0 1,250 Salford 0 18,992 16,822 Tameside and Glossop 0 3,286 75,405 Trafford 1,270 30,723 0 Notes:
1. The figures are shown without deduction of any expenses incurred. All trust fund income from subscriptions and donations; legacies, dividends; and other sources is excluded.
2. Sums (totalling £503,334 in 1989–90) raised by Special Health Authorities for the London postgraduate teaching hospitals and by Special Trustees for certain London and provincial teaching hospitals, which are therefore not identifiable with district health authorities, are excluded.
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